
安迪·贾西作为首批公开表示“AI将导致就业岗位减少”的大公司首席执行官之一,曾在就业市场引发震动。但在7月31日亚马逊(Amazon)财报电话会议上,他却传递出不同的立场。他重申了人工智能(AI)将成为变革力量的观点,称其“将极大地改变我们的工作方式”,并强调其广泛影响已然显现。他说,AI正在改变亚马逊的编程、财务处理等各方面的工作:“确切地说,它正在改变我们推行业务流程自动化和提供客户服务的方式。”
但随后他话锋一转。
贾西表示,AI“将使所有同事的工作更愉快”,将他们从过去无法自动化处理的“机械性”工作中解放出来。他补充道,在AI革命中,公司面临选择:要么拥抱正在发生的变革并帮助塑造新时代,“要么选择视而不见,任由变革塑造自己。”他表示,他一直在内部和外部努力表明,亚马逊将拥抱这一变革时刻。
“更加先进”
尽管过去两年AI的前景与隐患占据了科技头条,但贾西的评论详细阐述了亚马逊如何在其内部工作流程和面向客户的服务中快速嵌入先进AI的具体实例。他重点介绍了公司对生成式AI智能体的投资,它们可以协助甚至独立执行复杂的编程任务。
贾西解释道:“编程智能体让AI为我们完成大量编程工作……这使我们的同事能够从一个更加先进的起点开始工作。”
这种将人类创造力与AI驱动的效率相结合的理念,也在重塑其他重要部门。在研究和财务领域,贾西描述了AI工具如何快速整合海量信息或标记财务数据中的异常,从而让熟练员工腾出手来从事战略性工作。
贾西还强调了AI在亚马逊庞大的呼叫中心和客户服务运营中日益增长的影响力。他提到了AWS Connect(该公司基于云的呼叫中心解决方案)等服务现已深度整合AI,能更自然地与客户交互和自动问题解决。
贾西的变革性展望
贾西近几个月来一直在强调AI日益增长的影响力,例如建议员工参加AI培训,同时向投资者承诺AI最终会让他们“非常满意”。
亚马逊在7月31日早些时候公布了强劲的财报,但投资者对贸易困境和亚马逊的长期支出计划感到担忧,推动股价在盘后交易中下跌约7%。贾西在电话会议上告诉分析师,关于上半年关税的影响,“我们尚未看到需求减弱,也未看到价格大幅上涨”。
《财富》杂志使用生成式AI辅助完成本文的初稿。编辑在发布前已核实信息的准确性。 (*)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
安迪·贾西作为首批公开表示“AI将导致就业岗位减少”的大公司首席执行官之一,曾在就业市场引发震动。但在7月31日亚马逊(Amazon)财报电话会议上,他却传递出不同的立场。他重申了人工智能(AI)将成为变革力量的观点,称其“将极大地改变我们的工作方式”,并强调其广泛影响已然显现。他说,AI正在改变亚马逊的编程、财务处理等各方面的工作:“确切地说,它正在改变我们推行业务流程自动化和提供客户服务的方式。”
但随后他话锋一转。
贾西表示,AI“将使所有同事的工作更愉快”,将他们从过去无法自动化处理的“机械性”工作中解放出来。他补充道,在AI革命中,公司面临选择:要么拥抱正在发生的变革并帮助塑造新时代,“要么选择视而不见,任由变革塑造自己。”他表示,他一直在内部和外部努力表明,亚马逊将拥抱这一变革时刻。
“更加先进”
尽管过去两年AI的前景与隐患占据了科技头条,但贾西的评论详细阐述了亚马逊如何在其内部工作流程和面向客户的服务中快速嵌入先进AI的具体实例。他重点介绍了公司对生成式AI智能体的投资,它们可以协助甚至独立执行复杂的编程任务。
贾西解释道:“编程智能体让AI为我们完成大量编程工作……这使我们的同事能够从一个更加先进的起点开始工作。”
这种将人类创造力与AI驱动的效率相结合的理念,也在重塑其他重要部门。在研究和财务领域,贾西描述了AI工具如何快速整合海量信息或标记财务数据中的异常,从而让熟练员工腾出手来从事战略性工作。
贾西还强调了AI在亚马逊庞大的呼叫中心和客户服务运营中日益增长的影响力。他提到了AWS Connect(该公司基于云的呼叫中心解决方案)等服务现已深度整合AI,能更自然地与客户交互和自动问题解决。
贾西的变革性展望
贾西近几个月来一直在强调AI日益增长的影响力,例如建议员工参加AI培训,同时向投资者承诺AI最终会让他们“非常满意”。
亚马逊在7月31日早些时候公布了强劲的财报,但投资者对贸易困境和亚马逊的长期支出计划感到担忧,推动股价在盘后交易中下跌约7%。贾西在电话会议上告诉分析师,关于上半年关税的影响,“我们尚未看到需求减弱,也未看到价格大幅上涨”。
《财富》杂志使用生成式AI辅助完成本文的初稿。编辑在发布前已核实信息的准确性。 (*)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Andy Jassy, who sent shockwaves through the jobs market as one of the first major chief executives to say that “AI will mean fewer jobs,” sounded a different tone on the earnings call accompanying Amazon’s earnings on July 31. He reiterated his view that artificial intelligence (AI) will be a transformative force, saying it “is going to change very substantially the way we work” and emphasizing sweeping impacts already under way. It’s changing the way Amazon does coding, finance, all sorts of things, he said: “really the way we do business process automation, the way we do customer service.”
But then he pivoted.
Jassy said AI “will make all our teammates’ jobs more enjoyable,” freeing them up from having to do the “rote” functions that could not previously be automated. Companies have a choice in the AI revolution, he added: they can embrace the change that’s happening and help shape the new era, “or you can wish it away and have it shape you.” He said he has worked to make clear, internally and externally, that Amazon will embrace this moment.
‘Much more advanced’
While AI’s promise and pitfalls have dominated tech headlines for the past two years, Jassy’s comments detailed concrete examples of how Amazon is rapidly embedding advanced AI into both its internal workflows and customer-facing services. He highlighted the company’s investments in generative AI agents that can assist with—or even independently perform—complex coding tasks.
“Coding agents, having AI do a lot of the coding for us … allows our teammates to start from a much more advanced starting spot,” Jassy explained.
This philosophy of combining human creativity with AI-powered efficiency is reshaping other vital departments as well. In research and finance, Jassy described AI tools that can quickly synthesize vast quantities of information or flag anomalies in financial data, freeing up skilled employees for strategic work.
Jassy also spotlighted AI’s growing influence in Amazon’s expansive call center and customer service operations. He pointed to services like AWS Connect—the company’s cloud-based call center solution—which now has deep AI integrations for more natural customer interactions and automated issue resolution.
Jassy’s transformative outlook
Jassy has been emphasizing the increasing impact of AI for several months now, for instance suggesting that employees attend AI trainings while promising investors that AI will make them “very happy” down the road.
Amazon had delivered strong earnings earlier on July 31, yet investors sent the stock down roughly 7% in post-market trading with investors concerned about trade headwinds and Amazon’s long-term spending plans. Jassy told analysts on the call that, with regard to the impact of tariffs through the first half of the year, “we haven’t yet seen diminishing demand, nor prices meaningfully appreciating.”
For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.